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Hospital-based Surveillance for Pediatric Bacterial Meningitis in the Era of the 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Ghana
- Source :
- Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Abstract
- Background Global surveillance for vaccine preventable invasive bacterial diseases has been set up by the World Health Organization to provide disease burden data to support decisions on introducing pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). We present data from 2010 to 2016 collected at the 2 sentinel sites in Ghana. Methods Data were collected from children<br />The number of children
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical)
Serotype
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
030106 microbiology
Supplement Articles
Neisseria meningitidis
medicine.disease_cause
World Health Organization
Ghana
Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
Haemophilus influenzae
Meningitis, Bacterial
Pneumococcal Vaccines
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Cost of Illness
Internal medicine
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Disease burden
business.industry
Infant, Newborn
Infant
medicine.disease
Hospitals
pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
Infectious Diseases
Pneumococcal vaccine
Child, Preschool
Female
business
bacterial meningitis
Meningitis
Sentinel Surveillance
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15376591 and 10584838
- Volume :
- 69
- Issue :
- Suppl 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0f035ee607b2b6a0405c05b94bd37abf